OS X Standalone...

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On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 03:05 PM, Richard MacLemale wrote:

> A couple of questions for making an OS X standalone I'm hoping someone 
> can
> answer...
>
> 1.  The "about..." trick where you put your about message at the end of 
> your
> help menu - does that work different under OS X, or the same?
There is a bug when handling this.  All you have to do is make sure you 
have 4 or more things in the help button above the standard stuff.  Then 
it will work as you expect.
eg:
&Help
-
&Other CANELA Software Products
&Contact Information
-
&About


>
> 2.  Under OS X, standalones that you build still have the MetaCard menu 
> like
> stacks do running under MetaCard Carbon.  Obviously if I'm building a
> standalone application, I don't want it to be named MetaCard in the menu
> bar.  How do I change this?
This is more work.  One option is to download the latest developer tools 
from apples site.  Go to the developer section.  It is a big download.  
It will install all kinds of neat tools some of which you will need for 
icons and handling the menu you are talking about.

The data is stored in a resource called:  plst
1.  Use resedit in classic to get the current data from your standalone 
from this plst resource.  Copy it.
2.  Paste it into bbedit
3.  Open the file you save from bbedit into PropertyListEditor.  Change 
the needed items from there.  You can edit it with an XML editor or the 
application from apple called PropertyListEditor (which comes with the 
developer tools download).  Save that for later use if you want.  There 
is a dump button in that app that will put the xml data into a blank 
field near the bottom of the screen.  Copy that.
4.  Go back to resedit and paste it over the old data that you copied 
originally.
5.  Save those changes in resedit.
6.  You are done.

Let me know if you have any probs doing this.

>
> Other than that, everything else seems very straightforward...
>
> :)
> Richard MacLemale
> Instructional Technology Specialist
> James W. Mitchell High School
> http://mitchellonline.pasco.k12.fl.us
>

-Mark Talluto